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Id love to set you loose on Linden Blvd. one day and just start walking up to people and saying this. THAT would be "comedy gold."

The part that doesnt let him continue this ridiculous thread.

I nominate this as Post of The Year.

Whats truly scary about this regime is how it pushes aside any offer of help or cooperation to help solve a problem. Instead of working WITH BP, they completely turned the whole country against them, to the point that BP's efforts at a fix may be very well undermined. And the turning down of help, I do not understand at all. Theres GOT to be SOME reason why. Same this with the AZ law. Today its being reported that the Governor of AZ found out that the Administration announced a pending lawsuit against the law......on Ecuadorian TV. WTF. But this sis what you get hwen you have a "Community Organizer" running things....an "us against them mentality." The deominzing of anyone that stands in their way. Wasnt this what the left LOATHED about Bush?

And thats probably another reason why the CEO zipped his lip like he did yesterday. All he had to do is say one wrong thing and the US Government would put BP on the hook for who knows how many billions more. I know, I know....."!@#$ BP!!!!! DRIVE THEM INTO THE GROUND!!!!!!" Whatever.

Cant be. All those companies "dont care about the environent.".....even though they make all their revenue from working with it.

Actually, it IS what you said. I posted an example of someone fraudulently using a claim of "lost wages"...and you tacitly ACKNOWLEDGED that such a claim may indeed have merit. You TOTALLY BLEW PAST my assertion that people will try to game the system. You STILL blow past it now. You can call me 'conner' and thow insults all you want....like I care.....fact is, youre completely missing my point or ignoring the fact that the system will be gamed. Thats bloody naive.

There wont be anyone doing this. It wont happen.

He said provable and he also said (or at least implied) that ANYBODY that can claim ANY sort of "damages" has a case. Even when I posted an absurd example of a possible claim, he STILL asserted "ALL CLAIMS" should be honored. The "provable in court" argument is a red herring becuase that will NEVER happen. He essentially IGNORED the possibility of people gaming the system to take advantage of what BP is going to (or forced to) offer. And worse, he did so with as you say, the populist, emotion-based reason that "BP deserves it." And worse worse, he STILL wont define what could be considered a fair claims. Im not conner....Magox is conner.

I may be an idiot, but at least I have a basic understanding of how business runs. Unlimited liability.....lololololol.

Ive been asking Magox to answer this. He wont answer.

You want every claim to go before a Court? Youre not just insane....youre certifiable.

Go ahead...open a business without insurance. I dare you.

You dummy.....the energy companies have already looked into this. They have smashed their heads together for YEARS trying to determine if they can come up with the replacement for petroleum, even WITH Govt. help. You know what they came up with? They need to stick to petroleum.

Nothing will also drive them right out of the USA or out of business, either.

It "speaks badly of me" that I dont want to see fraud carried out on a mass scale, with "ambulance chasers" leading the parade into BP's headquarters? You got issues. Seriously. Again....DEFINE DAMAGES. And do better than "anyone who lost wages." Beacuase as I pointed out, any shitbag can make that claim if they try hard enough.

Well, with all due respect, youre insane. You cannot have unlimited liability like that! Any tom dick and harry can walk up to BP and file any kind of claim they want and it should be paid? Just total limitless liability for BP? Come on.

Well, it aitn happenning any time soon. I hate to break it to everyone, but petroleum is still the most cost and energy efficient energy source on the planet, by a Country Mile.

"ANY SORT" of lost wages? So, say a waitress in New Orleans or Pensacola can file a claim based on "lost wages" becuase tourism is down? If so, than pretty much the WHOLE COUNTRY can come up with some fakakta story with a "claim", couldnt they? Im at a marketing agency in New York. One of my clients is based on Avery Island, LA and they havent given me a project I expected becuase they are shut down for two weeks due to the wpill. Thus, lost "income" to me. Hello? BP Claims Center?

Define "damages" Becuase you can bet every !@#$ from Pensacola to Galveston is going to knock on BP's door looking for/demanding a handout. I wouldnt be shoicked if even a lot of !@#$s in the interior will look for check from BP claiming "lost wages or income" or even "emotional harm" from the spill. This isnt to undermine the folks ALONG THE COAST who were indeed harmed. There are just a looooot of !@#$s out there looking for a quick buck they didnt earn and/or have no right to.

Ya know what.....you may be on to something here.

Yes.....I agree.....the National AERONAUTICAL and SPACE Administration has tons of expertise and equipment to help plug a hole a mile underwater.

Ah, the LaRouche loons.... They have the SAME EXACT displays out in front of the Post Office near my office. They show up about once a month. They took their "Bush is Hitler" materials and just photoshopped in Obama once he was elected. Fun group.

Youd love your boyfriend Sully to get it, given the fascination both of ya have for the Palins and Levi.

There's a current story here where some drug addicted girl smashed a car through someone house and killed her. While being dragged to jail, this girl was taped and photographed crying and weeping ans screaming "Im sorry, Im sorry, it was an accident, I didnt mean it" on and on. If you look at the pictures of this woman in total distress you could almost wind up feeling sorry for her. Now...Newsday ran pictures of her in this state for a day. This woman in tears, looking remorseful and in pain. Suddenly, out of nowhere, they changed the photo of her taken from another angle where she looks sinister. Point is....SOMEONE in that newsroom make the conscious decision to alter the image and photo of this person so that the public did not generate a response that the newsroom didnt want. Id call that HARDLY a case of "we report, you decide." This goes on in every media outlet with every story, all over the world. Heck, the Ny Daily News is so transparent about it, its blatant. They run THREE headlines they know will generate outrage: 1. "White conservative says something provocative....everyone get angry!!!!!!" 2. "Black man beaten by cops!!!!" 3. Anything by the NY Yankees. They rinse, run, repeat, rotate these virtually through every paper. Its not about News reporting....its aobut generating a response....one that will sell papers or get ratings.